Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-16
THE CHARITY FALL.

The Inception of the PrOject-A Char
 Ity Which Appeals to AlI-The Sale
 of Fourteen Boxes TO.MOrrow Night
 -The Governor and StaH-The Sale
 ofReserVed Seats Friday Morning.
 The prospects are admirable that the com ing charity ball will be one of the most suc- cessful and brilliant social events ever given in the city. Public interest in the affair is strong and increasing and the sale of tickets very encouraging. Applications for the rental of number of the boxes have already been made, but none will be disposed of at private sale and all but one will be sold to the highest bidder at the auction tomorrow night at o'clock at the Grays' association rooms MT. E. o. Beecher has kindly con- scented to officiate as auctioneer on the occa- sion. There are fourteen boxes to be sold Beside the eight regular boxes, seven more will be erected, two of them on the right and | left respectively of the parquet and near the | lower front boxes and the remainder from | the stage on each side. One box is reserved l for the use of Governor Lounsbury and his staff. The sale of seats takes place on Fri | day morning at Peck's, probably, and some
 means will be devised to prevent speculating | with regard to them. The price will be | $1 each for the two front rows of the gallery
 and fifty cents each for the seats
 back of these $1 seats. The seats | for dancers and their chaperones. The ball, | it should be well understood, is not mil | itary ball, although the Grays thoroughly | interested in promoting its success, and the proceeds are to be given entirely to the hos pital. The details of the large amount of
 work done in starting and carrying forward
 the movement for this grand ball in aid of
 charity are quite we'll known to the public
 through the columns of the press. The affair | is in the hands of a committee of 12O gen. | tlemen thirty of whom are active Grays, thirty veteran Grays and sixty other citizens. 1 The project for the ball was can
 vassed by the Grays, Captain Lee,
 thoroughly and considered feasible,
 and in considering with regard to the selec- | tion of the particular charity, the committee 1 were influenced in deciding in favor of the hospital from reading the following, which appeared in the COURIER few weeks ago and which is reprinted to further impress 1 the great merits of the cause for which the ball is given upon the public:
 AN APPEAL FROM THE HOSPITAL. At the last meeting of the board of directors of the hospital estimates were presen ed by the pru least seven hundred dollars per year could be made by the substitution of machinery for the hand labor work; by machinery the expense can be reduced to
 
 Fifteen hundred dollars would be ample for put ting up the requisite machinery. In three years, therefore the Improvement would pay for itself in the re uction of expenses.
 The hospital society, however, as is well known, has no funds to call upon for such extraordinary expenses. The directors have no power to draw from the permanent fund for this purpose most of it, indeed, being already dedicated by the donors to the founding of free beds. To make this very desirable
 improvement it is necessary either to borrow the money or to appeal to the friends of the hospital for the funds. The directors very loath to thof OO6 h11 n way before them for its repayment. They prefer to ask the friends of the hospital to contribute d rectly this method of making very considerable seuction in the current expenses and in just far increasing it's usefulness.
 Contributions to this purpose would be- best sent to Mr. Leonard s. HotchkiSS, treasurer Of the hos pital society, at the New Haven County National bank.
 The music for the ball will be by Bern stein's of New York, twenty-five pieces, and the Second regiment band of New Haven, twenty two pieces. The bands will be sta toned in the top gallery. There will undoubt- edly be much interest at the auction sale of the boxes tomorrow night,